ELOPEMENT OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE WITH HER COACHMAN.
A painful sensation has been created in East Cornwall by the elopement of the wife of Major Grant, of the Duke of Cornwall's Liaht'infantry, with her coachman. The officer and his wife were on a visit to the latter's brother, the coachman accompanying them. On September 23 the husband and his host went off for a day's cub-hunting, and an hour after their departure the lady and her coachman drove off in the chaise to the coast some miles off where they took a boat for Devonport, afterwards proceeding by train to a destination unknown. AVhen they left the chaise they gave OS. to an ostler to "drive h the lady's brother's. It is stated that the lady ia only twenty-three years of age, of very vivacious manners, the "wttier of two children, and possessed of C :£ ro . l?ert y in her own right. Thecoachuearly tlle 3ame age, and the husband
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6255, 3 December 1881, Page 7
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159ELOPEMENT OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE WITH HER COACHMAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6255, 3 December 1881, Page 7
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